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How to fight cisplatin side effects like nausea & fatigue?
Head & Neck Cancer | Last Active: Jan 30 9:02pm | Replies (55)Comment receiving replies
@justwow
Ultimately it all boils down to individual choices .
You are in charge of your own body and we all hope our oncologists will steer us in the right direction and help us get through treatments with the least amount of pain and suffering. If treatments go south like mine did with cesplatin chemo then we need to make changes, pause or come up with a different plan.
Some of the more prominent cancer treatment centers like Mayo, MD Anderson and MSK to name a few are now offering more individualized treatment plans steering away from the standard of care plans of 7 chemo/35 radiation.
Hopefully others will come around and do the same especially for us H & N HPV + people.
Until then some of us accept the standard of care plan and make our own decisions based on progress as we go.
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@woodsy1 Just curious. Will your same radiation oncologist be following up on your treatment results/care after you drop out of the scheduled radiation treatments? Who will be overseeing you? Best of luck to you!
@woodsy1
Hi - I’m so sorry things went badly with the cisplatin- where were you treated? Did you have high bolus dose? Was it a split dose? I’m sorry to ask especially if you already posted this previously
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@woodsy1 I read in SPOHNC magazine that there is a dr in Boston conducting a clinical trial for a chemo patch. This sounds so much better than the awful chemo infusions. Hope his trial is successful.